Pale Rainbow Dots: Modeling the Atmospheres, Habitability, and Biosignatures of Terrestrial-sized Planets in and Beyond the Solar System

This NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowship focuses on modeling habitable terrestrial planetary atmospheres around different kinds of stars to address theoretical challenges in determining whether exoplanets could support life. The research involves working with multiple atmospheric, oceanic, interior, ecological, spectral and instrument models to study the atmospheres, surface environments, and spectral features of terrestrial-sized planets. The program uses both 1-dimensional and 3-dimensional global climate models to simulate planets including Venus, Earth, Mars and Titan, treating photochemistry, climate, and spectroscopy of planets with various parameters. The fellowship is part of the NASA Postdoctoral Program which offers one- to three-year competitive fellowships designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. The position is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and requires code development in Fortran/Python.